{"id":12042,"date":"2025-05-31T04:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T00:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12042"},"modified":"2025-05-31T04:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T00:18:23","slug":"india-resumes-issuing-visas-to-afghans-after-four-years-of-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/india-resumes-issuing-visas-to-afghans-after-four-years-of-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"India resumes issuing visas to Afghans after four years of hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12036\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/india-afg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Indian government has resumed issuing visas to Afghan citizens in six categories after a four-year hiatus.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Patients, their companions, students, businessmen, UN diplomats and ordinary entry applicants can now apply for visas, a foreign ministry spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Randhir Jaiswal announced on Thursday (June 9) that the &#8220;emergency visa&#8221; system for Afghans has been abolished and replaced by a new process that will be activated from April 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Afghans who have previously received a visa under the previous policy must renew or convert it under the new system.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">India suspended visa issuance and closed its diplomatic missions after the fall of the previous Afghan government in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Now, with the gradual resumption of interactions with the Taliban, the process of issuing visas has also begun.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The move comes as diplomatic contacts between New Delhi and Kabul have increased, with the Indian foreign minister recently calling Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Mottaki.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has resumed issuing visas to Afghan citizens in six categories after a four-year hiatus. Patients, their companions, students, businessmen, UN diplomats and ordinary entry applicants can now apply for visas, a foreign ministry spokesman said. Randhir Jaiswal announced on Thursday (June 9) that the &#8220;emergency visa&#8221; system for Afghans has been abolished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12043,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions\/12043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}